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Bug 367829

Summary:	[nano] separate Gemini Web out of the smallest nano distribution
Product:	[RT] Virgo	Reporter:	Glyn Normington <glyn.normington>
Component:	runtime	Assignee:	Borislav Kapukaranov <b.kapukaranov>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	b.kapukaranov
Version:	3.1.0.M01
Target Milestone:	3.5.0.M02
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Glyn Normington

2012-01-04 06:04:04 EST

There is clearly a usecase for a nano-based, single region distribution including Gemini Web (GW) like the VN in 3.1.0.M01 (known informally as 3.5.0.M01), but also for a very small nano-based, single region distribution for users who find the kernel too heavy.

So GW should be separated out of the basic VN distro and then added back in higher up the stack to form another distribution.

So we'll end up with multiple stacks, something like this:

  VN+GW VTS  VJS
    |    |    |
    \    \    /
     \    \  /
      \    VK
       \   |
        \  |
         \ |
          VN

Note that this could have implications for rippling and releasing since we may no longer be able to get away with one long linear list of git repositories.

Comment 1 Borislav Kapukaranov

2012-01-05 13:05:16 EST

Fixed with commits:
nano - 7225109
web-server - ffb2873

As a result there are two nano packages now:
- The smallest possible (VN without p2 and without GW)
- Full (VN + p2 + GW)

The commit in web-server allows the scripts to upload both zipped distributions to build or download.eclipse.org.

This has no impact on the linear approach of how Virgo is built. What's important is that the packaging repositories chain remains unchanged and is unlikely to change as the chain isn't related with how many packages a packaging repository produces.